The Heritage Rhode Island Red Site

[cmom]

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I have netting over all of my pens. I had a problem with owls too. The white wire is electric. Nothing will dig under. When a critter touches the wire it will know it. I have touched it when I have forgotten to turn it off and it has made my heart skip a few beats.

 

[Austinspoultry]

Subscribing! Working on a pen now for my RIR's. Im going to be hatching chicks this year for shows and such.

 

[laurend82891]

Some styrofoam incubators are better than others but if you learn to incubate in one you can hatch in anything. I use mt styrofoam incubator if I have just a few egg otherwise I use my cabinet incubator. Here is a good thread for using styrofoam incubators. The thread is for Little Giant but the same can apply to most styrofoams.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/601352/little-giant-incubator-tricks

Awesome! Thank you!

 

[Asmorilda]

This first picture is off some on the color. The legs are yellow with the horn coloring going up the toes and legs. Some have more and some have less of the horn coloring but the Reds should have some. I have let some of my birds hatch and brood her chicks but mostly I put them in my incubator.





If I have just a few eggs to hatch I use a styrofoam incubator.



My incubator.

I use my styrofoam incubators as hatchers. Makes it easier to keep track of whose chicks are in what hatcher.


One of my Buff Orpingtons with her chicks shortly after they hatched.

Yes, that is pretty much what my husband's RIRs legs look like. Thank you for the picture. Your incubation arrangement is awesome! I saw where you posted a site about the styrofoam incubators. I will be looking that over shortly. My cousin has Buff Orpingtons. I have Black Orpington pullets & a Black Splash/Mottled Rooster. They are characters. The RIRs are my husband's & the Orpingtons are mine.

 

[Asmorilda]

Hi guys! I'm looking for some RIR hatching eggs from a good bloodline. I've never had this breed so any advice or leads on eggs would be very much appreciated!
Thank you!

Hi & welcome! I am fairly new here myself. I think you will like the RIRs. They are so pretty. We don't have many but we have a start. Good luck with yours.

 

[cmom]

Quote: http://bloslspoutlryfarm.tripod.com/id64.html
http://jimspetsandpoultry.weebly.com/

 

[waddles99]

Has anyone ever gotten any birds from here?: http://www.rhodeislandreds.net/index.html

 

[jasonbubba1234]

No

 

[Asmorilda]

Has anyone ever gotten any birds from here?: http://www.rhodeislandreds.net/index.html

No but those are pretty birds. The rooster & hens look different from my husband's birds in a few ways & I'm wondering if that is because the birds shown at this site are the Underwood line. I don't know enough about the difference (or not any difference) in the Underwood, Reese, etc..

 

[neveraslave]

looking for a nice heritage Rhode Island reds just like the photo. do you have any available?